Tamer Başar#
| Membership Number: | 7109 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | PHYSICS |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | https://tamerbasar.csl.illinois.edu |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-4406-7875 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2021 - present Swanlund Endowed Chair Emeritus, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Center for Advanced Study Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
- 1983 - Present Research Professor, Coordinated Science Laboratory, UIUC
- 2021 - 2023 Executive Director, Illinois Advanced Research Center at Singapore Ltd. (Illinois ARCS)
- 2014 - 2020 Director, Center for Advanced Study, UIUC
- 2007 - 2020 Swanlund Endowed Chair, UIUC
- 2005 - 2020 Center for Advanced Study Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UIUC
- 2018 - 2018 Interim Dean, College of Engineering, UIUC
- 2008 - 2010 Interim Director, Beckman Institute of Advanced Science and Technology, UIUC
- 1998 - 2007 Fredric G. and Elizabeth H. Nearing Endowed Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UIUC
Fields of Scholarship
- Risk-sensitive estimation and control
- Mobile and distributed computing
- Social networks and inducement mechanisms
- Dynamic games, mean-field game theory, and stochastic teams
- Energy systems and the smart grid
- Security in computer and communication networks; intrusion detection and response
- Multi-agent networked systems: optimization, robustness, resilience and learning
- Cyber-physical systems
- Control of and over wired and wireless networks
- Epidemic networks
Honours and Awards
- 2023 Election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Area: Mathematical and Physical Sciences; Specialty: Engineering and Technology)
- 2023 Annual Wook Hyun Kwon Lecturer, Seoul National University, Korea
- 2021 Wilbur Cross Medal, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
- 2019 Honorary Doctorate, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
- 2019 Honorary Professorship, Shandong University, Jinan, China
- 2014 IEEE Control Systems (Technical Field) Award (highest award of IEEE in the control field)
- 2012 Honorary Doctorate (Doctor Honoris Causa), Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey
- 2012 Fellow, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
- 2010 Isaacs Award, International Society of Dynamic Games (ISDG) (highest award of ISDG)
- 2008 Honorary Professorship, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China
- 2007 Swanlund Endowed Chair, UIUC (highest endowed appointment at UIUC)
- 2007 Honorary Doctorate (Doctor Honoris Causa), Doğuş University, Istanbul, Turkey
- 2006 Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award, American Automatic Control Council (AACC) (highest award of AACC)
- 2005 Giorgio Quazza Medal, International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) (highest award of IFAC); also Fellow and Outstanding Service Award of IFAC
- 2004 Tau Beta Pi Daniel C. Drucker Eminent Faculty Award, College of Engineering, UIUC (highest award by the College of Engineering)
- 2004 Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize, IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) (highest award of CSS)
- 2000 Election to the National Academy of Engineering of the USA (primary section: Electronics, Communications & Information Systems Engineering; secondary section: Industrial, Manufacturing & Operational Systems)
- 2000 IEEE Millennium Medal
- 1993 Medal of Science, Turkey
- 1983 Fellow, IEEE
